Nine native plant factsheets that provide useful information and photos.
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Chelone lyonii is an excellent native addition to the perennial or rain garden.
Eutrochium purpureum sub-species maculatum ‘Gateway’ is a compact version of Joe Pye Weed. It is shorter, bushier, and with more robust flowers than other Joe Pye Weed plants.
Common milkweed, Asclepias syriaca, not only provides nectar for butterflies, bees, and other pollinators but is a larval host plant for butterflies and moths.
Liatris spicata, known as Dense Blazing Star or Gayfeather, is an erect, slender, long-lived perennial lasting often as long as 20 years.
Baptisia australis is an easy-to-grow, bushy, herbaceous perennial native to central and eastern North America.
Echinacea purpurea, of the Aster family, also known as purple coneflower, has reddish purple blooms and is a herbaceous perennial native to North America.
Eryngium yuccifolium is an attractive perennial becoming more popular as a garden ornamental.
Symphyotrichum laeve var. laeve is a tolerant and valuable shrub for the pollinator garden or meadow.
Helianthus angustifolius, also known as narrow-leaf sunflower or swamp sunflower, is a native perennial in the aster family.
